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A SUPPOSED NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT. 



Abeow-heads. — One finely-clipped, barbed and stemmed 

 arrow-point is in the Skitts Hill collection (fig. 8). I found it here 

 a few years ago. But such finely-clipped arrow-heads are ver\' 

 rarely turned up in the dwelhng-place at Skitts Hill. Among 

 the worked flakes, of which there are hundreds, there are nume- 

 rous pointed ones of a size from f-ths to i^ inches long, which 

 may have been utilized for tipping arrows. 



Pounding - Stones. — Many water - washed pebbles were 

 collected which exhibited signs of use. 



Fig. 8. Flint arrow-head from Skitts Hill. Full size. 



Sandstone Shakpenek. - Square-sided and oblong i| inches 

 by I in. ; length 4 inches ; probably used for grinding ; found 

 with flints and worked bones in the bottom bed. The base rests 

 steadily on a flat, the top is rubbed into a slightly concave 

 surface, and has a finely-finished grinding plane. 



Flint Flakes. — Numerous diminutive and delicately- 

 formed flakes are found, for what purpose used it would 

 be hard to say. They are of very varying forms, with sharp 

 edges and bulbs of percussion, some only f-ths inch in width, 

 and i^in. in length, have a clear bulb, butt, and sharp point, 

 two sharp ridges, three facets, and two ridges on tlie upper side. 

 Nothing in the wa}' of worked flints can exceed them in delicacy 

 These very delicate flints may belong to the higher level of the 



